This document provides a summary and analysis of the short story "Ghunusa" by Sarat Chandra Goswami. It discusses how the story depicts the disgraceful scenario of inhumanity in society through the story of a dominant woman. Specifically, it describes how after Ghunusa's family dies, leaving her alone and pregnant, her greedy cousin tries to claim her property by accusing her of being unchaste. Despite being innocent, she is declared impure and thrown out of society with her baby. The author criticizes the roles of the priest and doctor who refuse to help her due to lack of money. Overall, the story criticizes the discrimination, injustice and corruption in society through Ghunusa's

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Disgraceful Scenario of Inhumanity: A Study of ‘Ghunusa’.
Abdul Malik, Ph.D. research scholar
Arabic Dept. Assam University, Silchar. Assam, India.
Email-amrsma121@gmail.com
Abstract: A short story can represent a condition of a society, their social system with their culture. The short story
„Ghunusa‟ also draws a social system of a society with their behavior. „Ghunusa‟ brought out a disgraceful scenario of
inhumanity of a society. “Ghunusa” is a story of a dominant woman. She was rich. But after the death of her family with her
husband, one of her covetous cousin brother in law illegally proved her as characterless for her property and compelled her
to live alone with her baby. She was thrown out from their society managing some villagers by giving money. Here brought
out a painful picture of a helpless woman.
Keywords: Ghunusa, Disgraceful, Inhumanity, Dominant, Covetous.
I. INTRODUCTION.
The prolific writer Sarat Chandra Goswami mostly wrote his writings on social consciousness. He composed his
writings depicting the calamity and poverty. In his writings he always tried to reflect the corruption of society
and the social condition of the dominant people. Goswami fought against some social system and man created
rule covered with inhumanity. He tried to escape the society from inhumanity. His story “Ghunusa” also
represents his social consciousness. „Ghunusa‟ is a story of a pure village woman. It emerge a dreadful picture
of the human emotions. Goswami brought out a misery scenario of poverty with a neglected role of human
behavior through the woman „Ghunusa‟.
II. MAIN STUDY.
The writer Sarat Chandra Goswami depicted a clear picture of social conditions, cultures, and the life of
Assamese society with their living styles. The book “Golpanjali” is a collection of eleven short stories related to
the social, economical conditions and the cultures of Assamese Society. In this story book, „Ghunusa‟ is a story
of a dominant woman; the writer highlighted a painful picture of a dominant woman through this story. Ghunusa
was a woman of a rich family. She enjoyed the joyful day half part of his life. But unfortunately all of her family
members had died including her husband. She was alone and helpless. At that time she was pregnant, after a few
days she gave birth a child. But some greedy man tried to spoil her dream. A cousin brother in law tried to gain
her property by hook and kook. Because, nobody was remain there with her. And the cousin brother in law tried
to prove that Ghunusa was a characterless woman, a prostitute and her child was also the sign of her character.
Might is right. He managed some villagers by giving money to prove it. At last it was proved that she was
impure woman and her child was also unlawful in society. But she was really pure and her child was pure. They
compelled her to live alone and thrown out her form their society. She was deprived from legal, her property and
from her society. Through this story, the writer flashed out a painful picture of poverty and the condition of
some dominant people in society. He depicted a clear picture of injustice of a society. He also flashed out the
human emotions. The author criticized the role of the priest through this story, where Ghunusa met a priest
seeking some suggestion for her suffering child. But the priest refused her and wanted to go away from her. But
at that same time, when she offered a one rupee coin to the priest, he prayed for her more and more. Thus the
writer brought out a role of money in the civilized society. In this story, he criticized also the role of doctor who
refused to take treatment to her child, because she had no more money to give him. The writer drew a clear and
realistic inhumanity picture of a society throughout this short story. There also found a picture of destination,
calamity, and discrimination of society, man created rule, injustice, corruption and a painful picture of a
dominant people with an inhumanity of a civilized society. He wrote against the inhumanity social system and
tried to remove it from the society.

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III. CONCLUSION
Now a day, some of our society covering with inhumanity, injustice, discrimination and corruption. Our society
is highly civilized. But till day, some man created rules are remaining in our society which totally dreadful to the
human being. If we see to the discrimination of society, a dreadful scenario comes to our mind like the picture
of „Ghunusa‟. In this world there are many peoples who are suffering their life by the discrimination of their
own society. Every man has a right to live in this world. But some time, somebody compelled them to live alone
throwing them from society, make them a criminal, compelled them to become a prostitute, by using their self
created law and power. In this high civilized society many people are deprived from their legal property because
they are not a rich, no powerful position in their society and nobody is there to help them. Like the story of
„Ghunusa‟, there are many cases that die without a little treatment, nobody have a little sympathy to them. In the
high civilized society they die due to lack of money. We have to change our mind and our self created law
which have the bad impact on society and culture. It will change our social system removing the evils of
society.
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